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YA is finally going all the way down the drain. Long time users are getting violations for good direct answers and now the appeal people are telling them good direct answers they have been giving for years are indeed violations of the rules. Yahoo, the last thing to bring the death of this site is to push your long time users out the door.

It is so wrong that we cannot delete things we have posted. I had not idea I couldn’t delete my questions till it was too late. Anonymity means nothing. Questions asked are personal to the person who asked them and should have EVERY RIGHT to remove them. I can’t stress enough how upset I am with yahoo and the lack of available customer service and now the inability to delete our own questions. Please consider the people using your product and not just your stats or whatever it is that inclined you to remove the delete button. Till this problem is fixed I will not be using that feature. I put info up that people who know me could know I said it and I wanted a one time deal of posting and deleting a question when I got an answer. This NEEDS to be resolved I cannot stress this enough. It’s unfare, not safe, and overall selfish of Yahoo to claim our words and keep them up taking away our rights to remove them. Yahoo you are violating our privacy by not allowing us to remove info WE put up.

It is so wrong that we cannot delete things we have posted. I had not idea I couldn’t delete my questions till it was too late. Anonymity means nothing. Questions asked are personal to the person who asked them and should have EVERY RIGHT to remove them. I can’t stress enough how upset I am with yahoo and the lack of available customer service and now the inability to delete our own questions. Please consider the people using your product and not just your stats or whatever it is that inclined you to remove the delete button. Till this problem…

I have posted a question that got over 1000 answers and 20+ follows before and instead of getting rewarded for that I got 3 points deducted out of my account for asking a question. Askers should be getting rewarded for sparking large conversations and interests on the site like that, not punished for it. Answers with over 30 answers and follows should reward the asker with a certain amount of points. Something like the asker earns 1 point for every answer they get after 30 answers and 5 points for every follower to the question. So if the asker gets 54 answers to their question and 5 followers they earn 54 points total and an extra 25 points for the 5 followers. 79 points total to their account for sparking a large interest. It's rare to get a huge amount of answers and follows so why punish the community for making that happen instead of rewarding.

I have posted a question that got over 1000 answers and 20+ follows before and instead of getting rewarded for that I got 3 points deducted out of my account for asking a question. Askers should be getting rewarded for sparking large conversations and interests on the site like that, not punished for it. Answers with over 30 answers and follows should reward the asker with a certain amount of points. Something like the asker earns 1 point for every answer they get after 30 answers and 5 points for every follower to the question. So if the asker gets…

Please let there be the option to reply to questions that are even 10 years old. It actually doesn't really matter if it is a decade old, as a question is a question. And, time flies by so much anyway.
I'm on level 6, so maybe it is available on level 7. I doubt it.

I like the idea of moving questions to a better category to improve the nature of Yahoo Answer/Questions. But there are times where you have some people that spoil it for others. To keep people from moving questions malicious. Limit the how many times a single question could be moved, to maybe twice. The poster of the question may think that their question is in the appropriate category.

When I submit an answer I can see it in the list of answers for that question. However, when the question is viewed by others (including the poster of the question) it often cannot be seen ! This has been a problem experienced by many users for well over a year and makes the whole purpose of YA futile. Surely somebody can fix this ?

It would be helpful to have a feature where one can report an entire account, instead of particular questions and answers.

Spammers often spam the same questions over and over, and post cheat answers just to get points so they can spam their questions again. Why should users have to spend their time reporting individual questions and answers over and over when the whole accounts needs a review?

An example account is below - should users really have to report every question and every answer on this account?

A 'Report' button right after the 'Follow' and 'Block' buttons could be added.

It would be helpful to have a feature where one can report an entire account, instead of particular questions and answers.

Spammers often spam the same questions over and over, and post cheat answers just to get points so they can spam their questions again. Why should users have to spend their time reporting individual questions and answers over and over when the whole accounts needs a review?

An example account is below - should users really have to report every question and every answer on this account?

Spam filter is hiding answers after a small correction of typo or errors.
So after initially posting an answer , I go back to the answer and edit it by correcting
small typos. Then, the answer disappears from the site.
I can still see the answer, but the answer count goes down
and other people I know on the site can no longer see my
answer.

Here are some tools/features to help users deal with trolls and trolling:

- Allow users to block other users so that they don't see their posted questions or answers. There are some troll users here that I know will never ask a legitimate question, and that will only post abusive answers . . . for example, there are users only ever post racist questions. A feature hiding their posted questions, answers, and comments would be nice - if I can't see it, then it won't bother me.

- Allow users to hide their questions and answers from others users, so that they can't see them; you can hide your list of questions and answers on your profile pages, but it would nice to have the ability to hide my posted questions and answers from trolls - if they can't see it, they can't troll it.

- Users you have blocked should also be blocked from posting comments at your questions - at the moment, if blocked, they just spam their abuse in the comments areas of other user answers.

Here are some tools/features to help users deal with trolls and trolling:

- Allow users to block other users so that they don't see their posted questions or answers. There are some troll users here that I know will never ask a legitimate question, and that will only post abusive answers . . . for example, there are users only ever post racist questions. A feature hiding their posted questions, answers, and comments would be nice - if I can't see it, then it won't bother me.

- Allow users to hide their questions and answers from others users, so…